Producers often use the heavy FM bass for unique, distorted low-end.

While designed for platformer music, these sounds have found a second life in: For that 90s corporate-cool aesthetic.

The Sega Genesis is famous for its "gritty" and "metallic" sound, a direct result of the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesis chip. At the heart of this sonic identity lies Sonic the Hedgehog (1991). For modern producers, game devs, and remixers, the "Sonic 1 Soundfont" is the ultimate shortcut to capturing that 16-bit magic.